As a classicist, I am often asked for Greek and Roman reflections on love for holidays and weddings. I usually admit at the outset that ancient ideas about love rarely match modern expectations. Take, ...

Sex, said the Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, ‘is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus. In Rome, female infants were much more ...

Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia To love and be loved is something most people want in their lives. In the modern world, we often see stories about the ...

When an Irish poet and an English illustrator set out to dust off Greco-Roman tales with homoerotic undertones, they were not hard up for options (or for overtones, for that matter). By Maggie Lange ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

A highway expansion project in the United Kingdom has yielded countless ancient artifacts, including a symbol of love, officials said. Screengrab from Oxford Archaeology's Facebook post When you ...

In 2023, a viral TikTok question brought an ancient empire back to the forefront of our culture's consciousness. The question: "How often do you think about the Roman Empire?" The results were ...

In Rome, female infants were much more likely to be exposed (abandoned to die) because daughters required a dowry to wed and did not hand down the family name. Girls from leading families may have ...